A series of photographs of Sergei Timofeyevich - city poet, philosopher, tutor of stray dogs, one of the brightest and most recognizable individuals in Kaliningrad - was created in 2000. He readily agreed to having a photo essay made about himself. He graduated from one of our institutions of higher education, but then something went wrong and he lost his home. Not complaining about the injustice of life, he smiled and joked, fed his dogs and even said that he got used to journalists. He modestly asked for some money to go for a bath.

At that time he had a refuge in an old car standing in the park near the monument to Lenin. There he kept his household furnishings and was lived with his four-legged wards huddled together around him. I have never seen such sincere respect and esteem shown by animals towards a human being. Sergei Timofeyevich deserves it; he did not just look after the dogs, but cooked for them and even constructed a small nursery for newborn puppies from a pram so that they they could always be with their parents.

Many Kaliningrad citizens witnessed Sergei Timofeyevich at the head of the dog procession making his way to his workplace at the corner of the intersection of Leninsky Prospect Chernyakhovsky Street. There, he put up sheets of paper with philosophic texts by Kant, Hegel, Chinese thinkers, and comments on the events of everyday life in our society. He read to passers-by his new poems and writings devoted to Victory Day, the city, life… Every morning the city philosopher addressed his fellow citizens, and his knowledge about world events was amazing.

Now he walks along Kaliningrad with one dog. In the city they said that after their last clash with him, the police took his dogs away. I am afraid to think of what happened to them… In Russia they don't renounce indigence.